December 31, 2022 Issue, Page 3 of 8

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The Elk City News -3 News December 31, 2022 Pickleball Champs Crowned LaVerne Tucker celebrates 100th birthday Oliver Jones and Kirby Jones. LaVerne Tucker will cel- rah Building Bombing, 9-11. ebrate her 100th birthday on Using the wind charger to and father-son duo Kirby and tournament, a basketball January 9. She was born in charge thebattery for the radio Oliver Jones won the B Divi- skills competition, futsal, vol- Wheeler, Texas on January 9, to listen to stories and baseball 1923, to Claud R and Grace Lee games and now using satellites sion. leyball and another pickleball Cox. LaVerne will be honored and Wi-Fi “We want as many locals tournament—are planned for on January 14, 2023, at 2:00 Voted in 15 presidential as possible to experience what pm at the Bulo Event Center ( elections. Turning 21 in 1944 the Arrowhead Center has to this week. See the Elk City formally Bulo School House). to vote for Franklin Roosevelt offer free of charge before the Sports Facebook page for a She was the oldest of six LaVerne relates experienc- Kyler Welch and Max Murray. new year begins,” said tourna- complete list with days and children who were raised on es during her lifetime. ment director Eric Rheaume. times. a farm east of Wheeler. Af- She remembers Black Sun- According to Rheaume, ter graduation from Wheeler day of the Dust Bowl Era. The ‘The Arrowhead Center has tournament at Elk City’s Ar- two pickleball tournament di- The Arrowhead Center's High School as a member of family went to the cellar and the 1940 class, she worked as embraced the pickleball ma- rowhead Center. visions were needed because new fee structure begins feared that the world was com- in January, and details are a telephone operator, house- ing to an end. A frightening nia sweeping the nation. Elk City High School stu- so many people participated. keeper and at the Wheeler experience for a twelve-year- Two two-person teams dents Kyler Welch and Max More free activities- also available on the Elk City Hospital. She ventured to Am- old girl. won last week's pickleball Murray won the A Division, cluding yoga, a dodgeball Sports Facebook page. arillo Texas where she worked She tells about falling in an ammunitions plant at asleep while cultivating cot- PanTex during World War IL. ton with a horse and the horse Birds bring enjoyment to winter landscape She packaged bombs for ship- waiting at the end of the row ping to the front lines. for her to turn him to the next At the skating rink in the row. Meridian School House, she She rode a horse to go after By Trisha Gedon ning your landscape,” he said. morning dove eat seed from “Bird houses and bird roost met Earl Colbern Tucker. the milk cows while Earl was in “Food and water are read- the ground.” boxes are good options for When Earl left for the service the field, was thrown from the STILLWATER. - Gardeners ily available throughout the Don't limit the food offer- protection, too, especially he gave LaVerne a promise horse, got back on and made who enjoy seeing the brightly spring and summer, but it can ings to seed and suet. Fruit when placed out of the north- ring. They corresponded while it back to the house. She had colored flowers and shrubs be slim pickings for birds in feeders are a great way to pro- ern wind. Gardeners can help he was on the front in Italy. He broken her back in the fall. in the landscape during the the winter months.” vide needed energy for birds. by providing nesting materials returned home in December Milking cows in the barn warm summer months have During the winter, birds’ Load them with wedges of such as yarn, scraps of cloth or of 1945, He always said that that was built in the 1920's ( oranges, apples or sliced ba- when he got back home, he still standing today) the added benefit of observ- natural food supply is dead or nanas. even dryer lint for the birds to ing birds as these feathered dormant, so it’s important for use as insulation.” married LaVerne then set his Using the “smoke house” to Water is important for birds friends eat berries, insects and homeowners to provide high- because they not only drink it, Watching birds in the land- suitcase down, cure and store meat. nectar. calorie, high-fat foods that but also clean their feathers scape can be an educational ‘The young couple borrowed Going to the community Now that cold weather has will help keep birds well-fed with it. Clean feathers insulate opportunity for the whole a car for their honeymoon. quilting bees at the Grimes arrived, birds may be sparse throughout the season. Suet, much better against the cold family. Check out a bird book They returned home to the school house in the landscape. Gardeners peanuts, sunflower seeds, pea- than dirty feathers. A birdbath from the library and see how Tucker Farm in Sunny Point, “Fixing” Sunday dinner af- can continue enjoying bird- nut butter and Nyjer (thistle) adds visual interest to the many different species can be Oklahoma. Farming was a way ter attending services at the watching by providing food, are all good options. landscape and provides a wa- found in the neighborhood. of life that included cattle, Buffalo Baptist Church for the water and shelter to attract “Be sure to match the feed- tering hole for the birds. OSU Extension uses re- cotton, horses, pigs, chicken, Bruner Family. The dinner was more birds, said David Hillock, er and the seed to the type “In addition to food and search-based information to peacocks, wheat, hay gardens, fresh fried chicken and all the Oklahoma State University of birds you want to attract. water, birds also need shel- help all Oklahomans solve lo- orchards and three kids. She Smaller birds such as chicka- “fixings” that grew in the gar- Extension consumer horticul- dee, tufted titmouse and ter from the harsh elements cal issues and concerns, pro- could out pick anyone in the den. cotton field while one of the turist. finch prefer the tube feeders and predators. Something mote leadership and manage kids rode on the cotton sack. Helping serve meals for “Birds in the landscape can while larger birds including as simple as a pile of broken resources wisely throughout community gathering at the LaVerne resides in the house bring a lot of enjoyment for cardinals and blue jays prefer branches, prunings or other the state’s 77 counties. Most that she moved into as a new Sunny Point School House the whole family. Always keep hopper or platform feeders,” plant material can provide information is available at lit- Sewing garments for her- the birds in mind when plan- he said. “Some birds like the needed shelter,” Hillock said. tle to no cost. bride in 1945. Seventy-five self and members of the fam- years have been spent making ily, piecing quilts, and patching the house a home for them and overalls Supreme Court orders Title 42 border their three children, Tommy, Earlene, and Danny. The house Being a member of the Buf- was built at the turn of the falo Baptist Church, leading century. singing for 60 plus years Today, LaVerne actively en- Having the Tucker Home restrictions to remain in effect gagesin her hobbies of reading, Place declared an Oklahoma quilting, and crocheting. She Centennial Farm in 2022. is involved with the decisions Four generations of Tuckers Greg Stohr, Bloomberg indicated arguments will be the decision took effect. “The record in this case have farmed the 160 acres. News heard in late February or early The Biden administration documents the truly extraor- of the farming and ranching dinary horrors being visited told the justices it was pre- business with her son Tommy Traveling to California to March, visit relatives in the Model WASHINGTON — The U.S. The order came after the pared to use other immigra- on noncitizens every day by and grandson Monte. Supreme Court ordered pan- Senate voted last week against tion tools to address what Title 42 expulsions,” lawyers Looking back on 100 years A and telling her Daddy “Go demic-era border restrictions extending the restrictions as would likely be a “temporary” at the American Civil Liberties of living- so many marvelous home and go to California to- morrow” to remain in effect, granting increase in illegal crossings. Union Foundation argued for innovations have been experi- a request by Republican state part of a $1.7 trillion omnibus “The solution to that immi- the group. enced, LaVerne’s family, Tommy officials who said lifting the spending package. gration problem cannot be to U.S. District Judge Emmet Traveling by horse and and Nelda Tucker, Henry Lee rules would have produced an ‘The restrictions have let the extend indefinitely a public- Sullivan struck down the re- unmanageable surge of mi- Trump and Biden adminis- health measure that all now strictions in November, say- buggy, Model T to California Rose, Danny Tucker invite you to visit relatives, train, bus to to the celebration of 100 years grants seeking to enter the trations quickly expel people acknowledge has outlived its ing the CDC didn’t adequately on January 14, 2023 at 2:00 country. more than 2 million times public-health justification,” explain a departure from past and from Amarillo, and air- Voting 5-4, the justices since early 2020 amid an un- argued U.S. Solicitor General policy. A federal appeals court plane. at the Bulo Event Center ( for- blocked a lower court deci- precedented tide of migrants Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden in Washington said the states Cooking on a wood stove, merly the Bulo School House at sion that was designed to in- and worries about the spread administration's top court- waited too long to intervene gas stove, electric stove, and Henry's farm) Come celebrate validate the so-called Title 42 of COVID-19. Ending the pol- room lawyer. so they could request a stay of microwave oven. along with her 5 grandchil- rule as of Wednesday. The high icy would have meant a fresh The administration is sepa- Sullivan’s ruling. Kerosene lamps to LED dren: Lisa and Greg Bowman, court order, which extends a set of challenges for Presi- rately trying to end the policy The Biden administration lighting. Remembers turning Monte and Danielle Tucker, through a rule issued in April took a mixed stance toward temporary pause Chief Justice dent Joe Biden, forcing him by the Centers for Disease the policy in court. The Justice on the first electrical switch. Junita and Tuff Powers, Justin John Roberts imposed, keeps to manage a new influx at the Control and Prevention. A Department appealed the dis- Farming with horses, M Rose, Shane Tucker and her the border policy in place southern border. federal trial judge has blocked trict court’s order but didn’t Farmalland B John Deere Trac- 13 great grandchildren: Tyler while litigation goes forward. Although Title 42 is a public that effort, and the case is seek to keep the restrictions in tor. Watching her boys farm Carey, Rayanne Bowman, Coo- Justice Neil Gorsuch joined health provision, many border now before a different appeals place in the meantime. with large tractors equipped per and Kory Bowman, Mason hawks have come to see it as a Tucker, Reed Tucker, Grant necessary tool. In seeking Su- court. the court’s three liberals in The GOP-led states called with GPS technology. dissent. Immigrant families are chal- the administration's approach Powers, Guthrie Powers, Kay- Living through events such preme Court intervention, 19 ‘The justices also said they Republican attorneys general lenging the policy, telling the a “calculated and strategic sur- as Dust Bowl Days, Depres- lyn Rose, Kaycee Rose, Brystol will hear arguments on one said a federal district judge's Supreme Court the restric- render.” The states said lifting sion, World War II, Korean Rose, Danny Shane Tucker, aspect of the case, a bid by order invalidating the policy tions are subjecting people the restrictions would require Conflict, space travel and put- Dane Tucker and Dante Tuck- the states to intervene in de- would create a “crisis of un- who can’t enter the U.S. to as- them to spend more money ting a man on the moon, as- er. The Five Generation fam- fense of the policy. The court precedented proportions” if sault, der. torture, rape and mur- on law enforcement and social services. sassination of Kennedy, Viet ily is completed by great- great Nam, Afghanistan, OKC Mur- granddaughter Brynlee Carey.